Curbside Consultation: Taking Care of Disadvantaged Patients

Curbside Consultation: Taking Care of Disadvantaged Patients

Despite treatment, her blood pressure is still around 190/110 mm Hg. Because of reassuring basic laboratory test results, I do not suspect a secondary cause of hypertension. Increasingly, as the nation's health care system prepares for an era of pay-for-outcomes, hospitals and insurance compani...

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Veröffentlicht in:American family physician 2017-01, Vol.95 (2), p.118
1. Verfasser: Czapp, Patricia
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Drug dosages
Health care
Hospitals
Hypertension
Insurance coverage
Low income groups
Patients
Physicians
Primary care
Sociodemographics
Socioeconomic factors
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Zusammenfassung:Despite treatment, her blood pressure is still around 190/110 mm Hg. Because of reassuring basic laboratory test results, I do not suspect a secondary cause of hypertension. Increasingly, as the nation's health care system prepares for an era of pay-for-outcomes, hospitals and insurance companies are developing resources to address the challenges disadvantaged patients often face, and they are sharing these resources with community physicians. [...]regarding the constraints that metrics impose, there is discussion at the national level regarding risk-adjusting quality measures to take into account patients' socioeconomic factors.2 Here are some practical interventions that will help this physician at the practice level:
ISSN:0002-838X